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With a land area of 69.38 square miles (179.7 km 2) and a water area of 27.48 square miles (71.2 km 2), Kings County is the state of New York's fourth-smallest county by land area and third smallest by total area. [9] Brooklyn was founded by the Dutch in the 17th century and grew into a busy port city on New York Harbor by the 19th century.
The courthouse is located at 225 Cadman Plaza East, [5] across Tillary Street from the historic Federal Building and Post Office, which houses the Eastern District's bankruptcy court. [ 6 ] Along with the Alfonse M. D'Amato United States Courthouse in Central Islip, New York , the Theodore Roosevelt Courthouse houses the United States District ...
Counties of New York Location State of New York Number 62 Populations 5,082 (Hamilton) – 2,561,225 (Kings) Areas 33.77 square miles (87.5 km 2) (New York) – 2,821 square miles (7,310 km 2) (St. Lawrence) Government County government Subdivisions Cities, Towns, Indian Reservations Part of a series on Regions of New York Downstate New York New York City Long Island Hudson Valley (Lower ...
Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York: The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens is Queens County, and Staten Island is Richmond County. All five boroughs of New York came into existence with the creation of modern New York City in 1898, when New York County ...
Its courthouse is located in Brooklyn, New York City. The court has jurisdiction to hear civil and criminal appeals from the trial courts located in 10 counties: Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester in the Hudson Valley, Nassau and Suffolk on Long Island, and Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, and Richmond (Staten Island) in New York City ...
Westchester County was separated from the First District in 1813, and New York County was separated in 1815. In 1818, each county in the state became its own separate district. [1] Until 1822, district attorneys were appointed by the Council of Appointment, and held office "during the Council's pleasure", meaning that there was no defined term.
Planning and design for a post office in the then-independent city of Brooklyn, New York, began in 1885. During his three-year tenure (1884–86), [2] Mifflin E. Bell, supervising architect of the U.S. Treasury Department, designed the building in the Romanesque Revival style of architecture. The building originally functioned as both a post ...
Greenpoint Historic District is a national historic district in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, New York.It consists of 363 contributing commercial and residential buildings built between 1850 and 1900.